Indirect
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Indirect
Adjective
- Not direct: Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.
"The direct result of socialising every day in the bars may be happiness and meeting new people, but the indirect results could be addiction, or even poverty."
- Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.
"The direct result of socialising every day in the bars may be happiness and meeting new people, but the indirect results could be addiction, or even poverty."
- Not focused straight at the target or subject; whose true aim appears secondary or obscure.
- Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path; oblique.
"In an effort to beat the traffic jams, they opted to take an indirect route to their destination."
- Employing argument by contradiction; making use the law of the excluded middle; arguing via the contrapositive.
Verb
- To access by means of indirection; to dereference.
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